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Composer: Myer Lyon (Leoni)

Died: 1797, Kingston, Jamaica.
Pseudonym: Leoni.
Lyon was a chorister at the Great Synagogue, Duke’s Place, London, and a public singer either at Drury Lane or Covent Garden. Subsequently he became the first qualified chazan of the English and German Synagogue in Jamaica.
Sources:
Julian, p. 1151
McCutchan, pp. 27-28
Music: LEONI
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